IPhoto 9.4 update very buggy - HELP !!

Prior to installing iPhoto 9.4 three days ago I was using OS X 10.8.2 and iTunes 10.7. These updates were installed without any problems and upon launching iPhoto 9.4 it requires that the library be upgraded and I dutifully complied.
Problem #1
I noticed was that when confirming potential Faces the widow displaying the faces does not scroll when displying faces only. It does scroll when displaying the photos - a selection possible with switch in the top right of the window.
Problem #2
A more serious problem was that when syncing my Apple TV (1st generation), iPad 2 and iPhone 4S (both with iOS 6) the Photos tab in iTunes displayed extra events that do not exist (the names indicate old previously deleted ones). In addition, there is a long list of spurious (never existed), and empty events that are named with dates in the past month. As an example there are 6 events with the name "August 14" and they are shown to be empty. These extra and spurious events are only visible in iTunes when the Photos tab is selected when syncing my Apple TV, iPad or iPhone. None of the these extra events sync to any device even when selected, likely because they are empty.
Problem #3
When displaying Events on the Apple TV, iPad or iPhone, they used to display in the sort order selected in iPhoto (View/Sorted by...). As an example I had them sorted to disply by date and descending, so that the most recent Events were visible at the top of the screen. When synced, they now display by date and ascending, regardless of how they are sorted in iPhoto. In addition, the list of Events displayed in iTunes appear by date/ascending and this is how they appear when synced.
I have never experinced such a disasterous update to any Apple software before. I am in the proccess of restoring my older version of iPhoto and its librayy in the hope that this will fix these problems. Any suggestions from someone wiser than myself are welcome.

The bug in iPhoto has been identified and reported to Apple - they are reportedly working on a fix. The current version of iPhoto doesn't create "well formed" XML - so deleting and rebuilding the AlbumData.xml file may merely rebuild the problem. The Apple TV and iTunes can't read the bad XML, and the result is a scrambled mess.
If you can't wait for 9.4.1, then you might want to try editing your Photo Albums. For many people, the problems are due to the Photo Albums having songs associated with them, if the song name, album name, or artist name has an &, <, >, quotation mark or apostrophe in the name it will cause problems in the XML file (symptoms vary, depending on the specifics of what character was used and where it shows up).
You can go through each item in the left-hand column of iPhoto, one by one, and click the "sildeshow" icon (at the bottom of the iPhoto window, in the center) then choose a "safe" song, then click "play" (just for a second or two).
Or if you want, you can open the AlbumData.xml file and search for the "& " (don't search for the quotes, but do include a single space after the & ). That should zoom into the problem song name, and the Photo Album name will be just above that - you can then go into iPhoto and edit just that one Photo Album.
This won't work for everyone - the potential problem may affect Photo Album names, things you typed in comments - anything that gets recorded in the XML file - not just song names. And not just ampersands - but it is harder to search for apostrophes and quotation marks, < or > (unless your comfortable with "regular expressions"). It's also possible that yours is an unrelated problem, and just coincidental that the ampersand thing is happening at the same time (but I think they're likely related).
If you're lucky, your problem will be caused by an ampersand in a song name. If not, best thing to do is just wait for the fix in iPhoto 9.4.1.

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